It maybe an old codebase but it did have one thing that the others don't seem to have, An offline Area Builder.

I'm only getting my head around the bare basics of creating Ingame, I not going to pull any punches but at almost 50 I'm a slow learner, and what takes me a day or two to do ingame, takes me about a hour with the Area Builder.

I would love to move to the 1.9+ but I would not be able to do my game justices.

I would be great if some one could update the area builder to work with the new code, as I think this would benefit all, and would be a big plus at keeping newbies to smaug, like me around, as trying to create ingame can be really frustrating and off putting for us.

It would be nice to have one, But until then I'm going to have to stick with my 1.4a bugs and all.

A large rat scuttles across your path, eyes glowing in the dark.
A large rat scuttles across your path, eyes glowing in the dark.
A large rat scuttles across your path, eyes glowing in the dark.
A stray dog noses along the street.
A stray dog noses along the street.
A stray dog noses along the street.

That looks more like you had problems getting the code compiled so that the command table could be processed. You may find your log (in the logs folder) is filled with errors about being unable to look up symbols. There's information in the forum stickies about this.